The Killing Streets
Hello readers, I will eschew my normal greeting of "good day." The local Philadelphia area continues to be a sordid and unbelievable bloodbath of gun violence. While the violence is not driven by any one sole individual like Pol Pot did in 1970's in Cambodia it is astounding in it's relentless continuity. In that era, the Khmer Rouge party killed over 16 million Cambodians, over two million of which were killed by many means and left in multiple fields named the Killing Fields. The party ruled for 45 months. Over a similar period, all of calendar years 2020, 21, 22 and just 4 1/2 months of 2023 there has been 2,732 homicides in the city of Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia, loosely translated is City of Brotherly Love. Unfortunately, I and many others beg to differ. You cannot watch a news report on any given day without reports of several shootings and various other homicides. These are the Killing Streets. The...